Quotes About Polarization

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

People who truly represent an extreme on either side have a very difficult time getting bipartisan support for what they're doing.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

I think the issue that is really going to hurt the Republican Party is the right-to-life issue. I think they have painted themselves into a real corner.

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'